CLEOPATRICK release new single and video 'BAD GUY'

RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO

‘BAD GUY’

OUT NOW

SOPHOMORE ALBUM ‘FAKE MOON’

Photo Credit: Jake Haj @eggsailor

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LONDON (February 12th, 2025) – Today, the Toronto duo cleopatrick have released the next single ‘BAD GUY’ from their upcoming sophomore album FAKE MOON, set to come out on the 14th of March via their own label Nowhere Special Recordings. Listen to the latest taster for their record here.

As FAKE MOON weaves narratives that feel simultaneously intimate and universal, radiating a tension between fragility and defiance, conspiracy and truth, the cinematic ‘BAD GUY’ wrestles with the motions of guilt, carried by gritty synth waves and haunting electric guitar lines. Luke Gruntz’s vocals sparkle as the electrifying red thread making its way through the track and entire longplayer.

Speaking on the single, Luke says: “BAD GUY is supposed to feel like it was recorded, produced, and mixed on a nintendo gamecube. It’s got bit-crushed guitars, glitched vocals, and low-res samples all spinning and cycling in endless loops that mirror the song’s themes of guilt, repetition, and inescapable patterns.”

In pair with the hit release, the eclectic duo also added a new music video to their archive. Created by their friend Jake Haj (@eggsailor), the animated video is reminiscent of low poly, VHS-inspired indie horror games and gives a nod to the album’s title as it sees the band being chased by a moon donning a surveillance camera aimed to catch their every move. Talking about the video, Luke explains: “Naturally, the BAD GUY video meets the song where it’s at: far away in someone’s low-poly 2003 fever dream. The video follows Ian and I as we run away from the sinister “fake moon” — a looming, monolithic surveillance craft tracking our every move with the CCTV camera that protrudes from its shell. It’s supposed to be a nod to the Simpsons hit and run / Tony Hawk pro skater thing. Only much more anxious, surreal, and evidently doomed.”

Returning refreshed from a creative breather, after the rigorous post-pandemic touring of debut LP BUMMER, the newest record on their own ‘Nowhere Special Recordings’ is a captivating collision of lo-fi grit, quiet introspection, and overt existentialism. Anchored in refusal of conformity, and captured with what can only be described as the audio equivalent to Playstation 1 graphics – FAKE MOON navigates power, vulnerability, and the complexities of individual identity with both rawness and precision.

FAKE MOON is CLEOPATRICK at their most adventurous. Look overhead and perhaps you’ll spot the orbiting influences of Radiohead’s experimental brilliance, the grounded surrealism of Dijon’s Absolutely, or the raw intimacy of favourites since highschool, Califone. “We’re just trusting our creative compass,” they say. “I actually tried to write BUMMER 2 at first – but it immediately felt as if I was putting on the costume of a 23 year old me. It wasn’t coming out honest.”

The band will head out on a UK & IE headline tour in March, including their biggest UK show to date at London’s Electric Brixton, which has already sold out alongside their dates in Birmingham and Manchester. Newly energised, cleopatrick are ready to head back out, not only sharing what they have been up to in the studio, but also re-interpreting the music fans have come to love over the past few years.

Since their inception, cleopatrick have proven themselves to be one of the most in-demand rising rock bands on the planet. They were the only band picked for Amazon Music UK’s Ones To Watch 2021, and have amassed over 100 million streams alongside multiple sell-out tours in the UK, EU and US, performed at festivals ranging from Lollapalooza and Reading & Leeds, and served as direct support to Royal Blood and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes.

cleopatrick’s gargantuan debut album ‘BUMMER’ received critical acclaim across the board from the likes of The Guardian, The Independent, MTV UK, DIY, Kerrang, Rock Sound, Dork and Upset. The band were also chosen as BBC Radio 1’s first ever Future Artist, with regular plays on air from tastemakers Annie Mac, Jack Saunders and Daniel P. Carter. The album also earned the duo their very first JUNO nomination for ‘Breakthrough Group of the Year’ at the 2022 JUNO Awards.

View the album artwork and track listing for FAKE MOON below: